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Poverty Bibliography
1. "Measuring Poverty." __wikipedia__. 4 Oct 2006 .

This article showed me that there is poverty in a developed country as well as a developing country. Also it showed me actually how many people in the world work for less that a dollar a day. (Question 1)

2. Shah, Anup. "Poverty facts and stats." Monday, April 03, 2006 04102006 .

This article showed me statistics and facts about poverty. It was very helpful and interesting to know the actual numbers. (Question 4)

3.”Statistics on poverty and Food Wastage in America” www.soundvision.com/Info/poor/statistics.asp. 3 Oct 2006 < www.soundvision.com/Info/poor/statistics.asp>.

This web page gave me stats as well but it did so in a very different way. It showed me graphs both line and bar. This helped because I could visually see the statistics. (Question 3)

4. Allahar, Anton, and James Cote. __Richer or Poorer__. Toronto, Ontario: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, 1949.

This book helped me because It talked all about inequality. This was very useful information. I used it to give me a perspective on the different kinds of lives people in some places live in. (Question 7)

Interview with the mother of Jeanette Walls

 * 1) What do you think is the main reason for your not having enough money, in the past and present?
 * 2) What do you think you could have done to pull yourself out of poverty, or improve the life for your young children, Maureen, Lori, Brian and Jeanette?
 * 3) Could you please, in simplest terms, tell me why you never sold the “million dollar” plot of land in Texas, besides that you wanted to keep it in the family?
 * 4) How do you feel when you know that you are one of the more than a million people in North America who goes to bed hungry every day?
 * 5) Do you feel the government is using money on other things such as weapons instead of paying off dept or helping its citizens?
 * 6) Why did you always spend the majority of your family profits on luxuries such as cosmetics, when your family was in bad condition and you had never really maintained a stable household?
 * 7) What are your thoughts on inequality? Do you think that it is fair that just because you never provided for your family that they have to go down as well?

by: Jai and Zac